Imagine if Bill or Hillary had said this.

Not that Bob Casey doesn't also, but sometimes I find myself jealous of Wisconsinites.

I might think my ex-girlfriend is a good person, but I don't go around talking about it in front of my wife.  There's a time and place for praising people, and surely Feingold could have used better judgment.

But it was stupid.

And honestly, there's nothing in your diary on the level of the stuff you've written about the current nominee so I don't understand what your problem is THIS time.

But he is an idiot for opening his mouth. If he doesn't have anything to say that is going to help the Democrat's chances of winning the presidency, he needs to zip it. I could care less that he is so progressive. I'm tired of being a purist and still losing.

I'd like to pick both actually. Both are true.

can we stop eating our own?

....not as he does.

. But even though I feel strongly about that, I can't sit here and say that John McCain doesn't have the temperament to be the president of the United States. I frankly think he does. And I think he'd be a good president....

John McCain supports torture, domestic spying, pre-emptive war, an end to checks and balances, criminalizing abortion, shredding the social safetynet, privatizing Social Security, health care as a privilege, drilling to enrich oil companies while doing nothing for consumers, discriminating against gays, and many other things that don't fly from the top of my head to the pit of my stomach to make me sick.

The question is not about "throwing people under the bus" (as the usual nitwits trot out there little trolling phrasebook) but it these things mean anything to Russ Feingold. I believe they do.
So how can Russ Feingold, as he put it a week ago, be "comfortable" with a McCain presidency?

There are two Beltway diseases on display here. First of all, Feingold is polishing his own knob, masturbating to the thought of a what a mavericky, non-partisan he is. Two, putting social relationships before policy. This is why we still have Lieberman. If Russ wants to have dinner with John, that's none of by business. If Senator Feingold is jerking himself and his friend off at the expense of the things I believe in (and that he does, which is why he's an idiot), then it becomes my business.

Why do you always have to take such extreme positions with your polls?  Feingold made a mistake; if he feels the need to praise McCain, he should bite his tongue for a few months.

is eerily familiar

I hate to say this as a blue dog democrat but I agree with you that Feingold should not be praising McBush.  If he can't find anything bad to say, heaven help us why, than he shouldn't say anything.  I also question why he didn't come out and endorse Obama during the primaries when he said that he voted for him??

Anyone who wants to take a crack at Feingold needs to go through me.

That is all.

Props for not mentioning anything about a bus.

and a blithering one at that too. He seems to have forgotten which senator voted for the shameful eavesdropping bill and who did not.

Some people on the left are becoming or are just as bad as the righties!

Progressive Blue

But in this case, an enabler of continued Republican administrations. Very UnProgressive moment for Russ.

Message. Discipline. It's why we lose.